Controller - Fractional (Albany, Saratoga Springs, Troy, Glens Falls NY)

Controller - Sr. Accounting

Position Overview:

As a CEFO Controller, you will work with a core group of clients managing their accounting staff, creating efficiencies, workflow guidelines, and implementing improvements. You will work with our CFO's advising executives on strategy and accountability and will help create budgets, forecasts, and models to ensure clients have the roadmap to profitably grow their businesses.

Qualifications:

• 5 years of accounting experience at the Controller level.
• Ability and acumen to coach and mentor staff.
• Ability to manage multiple clients and balance priorities.
• Demonstrated proficiency and expertise in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills required. Must understand and be willing to adapt to a changing role and be comfortable working in a team dynamic with a variety of personalities. Client service is key.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel is required.
• Experience working with QB, Sage products and other ERP systems. Ability to quickly adapt to different client systems is necessary. Experience with new system implementation is a plus.
• Demonstrated success in managing multiple priorities and budgets, while achieving required results.
• Confidentiality and promptness are of utmost importance.

• A strong desire to help clients succeed and the empathy required to understand their challenges is critical to your success in this role.
• Strong technology skills and familiarity with various software and online tools.
• CPA a Plus!
• Exceptional interpersonal and client service skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Job responsibilities:

• Reviewing financial information and/or data entry.
• Closing month-end.
• Recording recurring journal entries such as payroll and depreciation.
• Reconciling balance sheet accounts.
• Defining client-centric accounting and controller reports
• Developing and maintaining 13-week cash flow forecasts.
• Implementing efficiency and best practices.
• Supervising client and/or CEFO staff.
• As a Fractional Controller, developing workflow processes.
• Developing banking relationships and successfully arranging lending programs.
• Identifying and correcting existing pain points.
• Working hand in hand with clients to develop their future strategic plans along with milestones to success. Some clients work with EOS. Experience and understanding of the EOS principles and program is a plus.
• Preparation and/or review of projection models.
• Preparing and analyzing client assessment reports.

Who you are:

• You are a Controller or Sr. Finance professional based within 60 miles of Saratoga Springs.
• You are hyper-focused on the details.
• Organized is your middle name.
• You believe in solutions, not problems.
• You can think outside of the box.
• You understand the delicate balance and integration of finance, operations, and sales and can lead to create strong collaboration.
• You approach everything with a "can-do" mindset.
• You are the heads down, grinder type.
• You have a penchant for working with multiple clients.
• You're reliable, even predictable at times.
• You are a consummate professional.
• You Do the Right Thing, always.

Compensation and Benefits-

• $40 to $55 per hour.
• Generous incentive program.
• Attainable commission programs.
• Eligible for annual bonus payout.
• Health benefits with company contributions.
• Dental and vision benefits available.
• Company sponsored defined contribution plans.
• 3 weeks of paid vacation.
• 10 paid holidays plus your birthday off.
• Hybrid work environment.

CEFO Advisors is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and the uniqueness of every individual. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, or disability status.